Science and Technology News | Scientists discover millipede with 1,306 legs

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●On the 17th, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism issued a notice requiring strict implementation of the "fuse" mechanism for the management of cross-provincial tourism business activities. For provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) with medium- and high-risk areas, travel agencies and online travel companies will be immediately suspended from operating cross-provincial group tours and "air ticket + hotel" businesses in the province (autonomous region and municipality) and announced in a timely manner. From now until March 15, 2022, travel agencies and online travel companies will be suspended from operating cross-provincial group tours and "air ticket + hotel" businesses in and out of land border port cities (except those connected to Hong Kong and Macao). (Source: Ministry of Culture and Tourism)

●On the 17th, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the "Anti-Food Waste Work Plan". The plan clearly prohibits radio stations, television stations, and online audio and video service providers from producing, publishing, and disseminating programs or audio and video information that promote eating too much, overeating, and other food waste. (Source: CCTV News)

New findings

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●On the 17th, Li Yongqiang, assistant researcher at the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, introduced at the 2021 Henan Archaeological Work Achievement Exchange Conference that the latest discovery of wine brewed with Monascus about 8,000 years ago at the Peiligang site is the earliest Monascus brewing technology discovered in my country. It is reported that researchers detected abundant Monascus hyphae and cleistothecia in the residues of two pottery pots, as well as rice starch grains with fermentation characteristics. (Source: Xinhua News Agency)

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●Scientific Reports published a biology paper on the 16th, saying that a team of American scientists discovered the world's first millipede with more than 1,000 legs. Paul Malik, a scientist at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and his colleagues discovered this millipede 60 meters underground in a mineral exploration drill hole in the eastern gold mining province of Australia. It has 1,306 legs - more than any other animal. This new species was named "Eumillipes persephone". (Source: Science and Technology Daily)

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●The Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced on the 17th that researchers discovered a new species of the genus Chindun girdle in the Demandi Nature Reserve in the Chindun River Basin in northern Myanmar, bringing the number of species in the genus Chindun girdle to 3. (Source: China News Service)

Pure Technology

●The team led by Professor He Yuxian from the Institute of Pathogenic Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and the team led by Researcher Xue Jing from the Institute of Medical Laboratory Animals, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, have developed a long-acting lipopeptide viral fusion inhibitor, LP-98, with extremely high anti-HIV activity, which can be used as an effective HIV treatment and prevention strategy. The relevant research results were published in Cell on the 17th. (Source: China Science Daily)

See the world

●On the 16th local time, the South Korean Central Epidemic Prevention Headquarters announced that the number of critically ill COVID-19 cases in South Korea has hit a record high since the outbreak. According to data released by the South Korean Central Epidemic Prevention Headquarters on the 17th, there are only 39 intensive care beds left out of 371 in Seoul, South Korea, and the South Korean government has announced tightening epidemic prevention measures. (Source: The Paper)

●The world's first text message, which was "born" in 1992, will be auctioned in the form of a digital replica on December 21, local time in France. The auction house estimates that the transaction price of this text message will be between 100,000 and 200,000 euros. On December 3, 1992, Papworth, a software engineer at British telecom company Vodafone, sent the world's first text message - "Merry Christmas". (Source: China News Service)

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